US 11,987,046 B2
Printing apparatus and control method
Ryosuke Murata, Tokyo (JP); Takuya Suto, Kanagawa (JP); Toshiro Sugiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Daigo Kuronuma, Kanagawa (JP); Kenji Shimamura, Saitama (JP); Ryo Harigae, Tokyo (JP); Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Tokyo (JP); and Kouhei Tokuda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/189,613.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-038124 (JP), filed on Mar. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0276350 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 29/68 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/02 (2006.01); B41J 13/10 (2006.01); B65H 29/12 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/0036 (2013.01) [B41J 13/025 (2013.01); B41J 13/106 (2013.01); B65H 29/125 (2013.01); B65H 29/68 (2013.01); B65H 2405/58 (2013.01); B65H 2551/29 (2013.01); B65H 2801/03 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a pair of rollers configured to convey a printing medium;
a control unit configured to cause the pair of rollers to hold the printing medium onto which printing has been performed by a printing unit; and
an operation panel configured to receive an ejection instruction for instructing to eject the printing medium, wherein
the control unit, in a case where the operation panel receives the ejection instruction, controls the pair of rollers to allow ejection of the printing medium to outside of the printing apparatus after a predetermined time has elapsed, and
wherein the control unit controls the pair of rollers to allow ejection of the printing medium to the outside of the printing apparatus by increasing a distance between an axis of each of the pair of rollers.